[bksvol-discuss] Re: self-censorship
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:23:09 -0800 (PST)
Thanks, Carrrie--and enjoy your holiday. I wouldn't have written, but the nice
thing about email is that one can open it at one's convenience, so I had no
compunction about writing on Sunday or Valentine's Day. :-)
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Sun, 2/14/10, Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: self-censorship
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 8:34 PM
> Hi gang,
>
> Our librarian Amy was given the task of vetting the Wish
> List, finding those books that would qualify as educational,
> so we could buy them and put them in the collection.
> Unfortunately Amy has had health issues for the last couple
> of months, so the vetting has been moved to the back burner
> while she works on more pressing issues for Bookshare. I
> will ask her about vetting the Wish List, and let you know
> what she says, on Tuesday. (Monday is a holiday).
>
> Carrie
> From:
> Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> To:
> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sun,
> February 14, 2010 7:46:42 PM
> Subject:
> [bksvol-discuss] Re: self-censorship
>
> As a matter of fact, Cindy, I recall, about a year ago,
> Carrie sent us an email saying that in about a month or so
> she was going to start buying books on the wish list that
> were of an educational nature to be added in house. I think
> she suggested that we should start adding any books to the
> wish list that we wanted that would qualify. At the time I
> recall thinking that I could probably come up with quite a
> few such titles, but that was right after you had your
> stroke and to us you had just disappeared without any of us
> knowing what happened. When Carrie sent that email you had
> been missing only maybe a couple of days and no one had yet
> commented on it, but I did notice your abscence. I
> decided to wait because I was not sure anyone would be
> there to add to the wish list. As time stretched out and
> others were noticing that you were missing I felt like I had
> more reason to refrain. I never did hear anything more about
> that plan to buy up wish list books for in house processing
> though. It would be good if Carrie could comment on it now.
> That could go far in paring down the wish list, coming
> closer to fulfilling the grant requirements and making
> wishers happy.
>
>
> _ _ _
>
> "I believe in recognizing every human being as a human
> being, neither white,
> black, brown nor red. When you are dealing with humanity as
> one family,
> there's no question of integration or intermarriage.
> It's just one human
> being marrying another human being, or one human being
> living around and
> with another human being.... The worst form of a human
> being, I believe, is
> one who judges another human being by the
> color of his skin."
> Malcolm X
>
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> Pathfinder Press:
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> Granma International:
> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Carrie Karnos" <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>;
> "Geneva Vander Poel" <genevav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday,
> February 14, 2010 10:11 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] self-censorship
>
>
> > Looking through the old wish list, I realized that
> because volunteer scanners scan books they want to read and
> enjoy
> > (because some of us for physical reasons proof and
> don't scan, the pool of scanners is relatively small,
> I'd guess) books in various genres don't get
> scanned., e.g., erotica, Christian nonfiction.
> > Is it possible, Carrie and/or Geneva,that you can find
> inhouse volunteers or interns or paid employees, or even
> paid volunteers who would be willing to scan some books of
> those genres that have been on the wish list for a long
> time? I am gradually, as I have a few minutes here and there
> between proofing and doing my taxes, moving some requests to
> the new wish lists.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
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